2025-01-12
| Day | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intro to CSS + Corpus selection | Web scraping in R | Coding session |
| 2 | Manipulating textual data | From text to numbers | Coding session |
| 3 | Supervised machine learning (SML) for text classification | SML in R | Coding session |
| 4 | Unsupervised machine learning (UML) | UML in R | Coding session |
| 5 | Large language models (LLMs) | LLMs in Python | Open |
Computational social science is an interdisciplinary field that advances theories of human behavior by applying computational techniques to large datasets from social media sites, the Internet, or other digitized archives such as administrative records. Edelmann et al. (2020)
CSS from two main developments :
The best method depends on the task
## Immigration stance over time in Germany
Social group detection in party manifestos